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There is overwhelming agreement from the scientific community regarding causes and impacts of climate change, while large segments of the US public still regard climate change as affecting the next generation and of low priority. Climate messaging that has focused on future increases in temperature...

The Black Death of 1347-1353 began the second of three plague pandemics that resulted in millions of deaths over four centuries. The disease was initially introduced from Asia and is believed to have persisted in European rodent populations until its disappearance in the early 19th century. Latest...

As silicon photovoltaic (PV) technology reaches its efficiency limits, extracting further energy from the sun is as challenging as an obstacle course: for all of its advances, fossil fuel is still a cheaper option. Three criteria are generally recognized for the technology to compete with fossil...

Drought powerfully impacts ecological and agricultural systems, and in many areas is expected to increase in severity as a result of climate change. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/), parts of California and Texas currently suffer from “exceptional drought.”...

Salmon are an iconic Pacific Ocean species upon which millions of people’s livelihoods depend. Their epic migrations link marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems, transporting nutrients from the oceans to hundreds of miles upstream. Salmon enhance the productivity of rivers and terrestrial...

Understanding future health risks posed by infectious diseases due to anthropogenic climate change remains an important but poorly constrained challenge. It is clear that temperature and precipitation are primary drivers that determine the spatial distribution of host and vector distributions for a...

The effects of climate change on biodiversity can be quantified by assessing vulnerability of species to changing climatic conditions. Such assessments usually include three elements: assessment of sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and potential exposure of individual species to climate change (...